The "No Tip!! Say It Ain't So!!" Story

It was an ordinary day.  My wife had just finished the first part of making her first batch of peanut butter cookies and had placed them on the ceramic counter-top.  Next comes the Hershey Kisses which she places on each one before returning them to the oven for two more minutes.  

I opened a few of the Hershey Kisses and found the tip missing!
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Opened the first of many Kisses we had just purchased when she noticed that the tip of each Kiss was missing.  "What happened to the Hershey Kisses?" she asked to anyone who may have be listening.  I took a look and saw that the tip of each Kiss was missing.  What gives?  She finished baking a few dozen of the cookies with the Kiss on top and put them on the counter to cool before placing them in a container and then the fridge to keep them cool so the Kisses wouldn't melt.  

The tips on Carol's cookies is missing!

She mentioned the tip missing on the Kisses to a few friends who had no idea either why they were missing.  Finally, a week later, in the Sunday newspaper, a story appeared with the answer to her question.  The story began with.....Ugly. Inferior.  Cocoa confection catastrophe.  Seems everyone from professional bakers to Christmas cookie makers was experiencing the same thing.  But, a spokesman for Hershey Company, which is about a 40 minute ride from my home in Lancaster, PA had no answer for why the traditional rounded conical peak had an unsightly jagged edge.  The spokesman said they make 70 million Kisses a day and they strive to have everyone of them looking as great as they taste.  The newspaper article told the story of one woman from Baltimore, Maryland who was making peanut butter blossoms for a holiday gathering when she noticed that the tips on the Kisses were gone.  She wanted an apology for being sold a defective product at top dollar.  

In 2007 the Hershey Kiss was offered as a postage stamp.

Seems that only the solid Kisses were affected and not the filled Kisses.  All the defective Kisses were made in Hershey, PA.  Kisses were first made in the early 1900s and in 2014 the Kiss was incorpor- ated into the company's logo.  Well, I just had to try a few of Carol's peanut butter cookies with the Hershey Kiss on each one to make sure they were edible.  Took me close to a dozen and a half of the things to pronounce them A-OK.  Told her that since she is known as a great cookie baker, I didn't want anyone complaining that the Hershey Kiss cookie was inferior.  And, I really didn't even mind that the tip wasn't there.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.